Duty Hours:

AM:  8:00 – 12:00  MON, TU, WED, THUR, FRI

Daily Schedule:

8:00-9:00 am – Sign your reports, then check with the AM Attending to plan your morning’s work.  Pick up the requests outside the door of the Out-patient reading room.

9:00/9:30-10:30 am – Review all films to be dictated or presented at Medicine Conference with attending.  You will have between 1 and 1.5 hours to go over all films, so the review may need to be brisk at times.  Review PEC (our ER dept) films first and call abnormal findings to PEC MD x 66753.

9:30-10:00 am – Post-call Medicine team and any others wishing to review radiographs will assemble in Med Conference Rm.  Sr Residents should be able to review all types of studies and consult on outside studies provided by clinicians.  There is no official conference on Thursdays.

10:30 – 11:00 am – Sometimes the Med ICU team arrives separately to review their studies, occasionally they will arrive at the same time as the Medicine post-call team.  Frequently, Pulm will also ask to see chest CT’s on their consult patients.

TU/THURS – There are occasional arthrograms to perform.  The patients and studies are listed on the fluoroscopy board the afternoon before.  Each patient needs a pre-procedural note in the chart before the exam.  Medications, allergies, indications need review, there must be a request for the exam.  For all patients – you must indicate that a medication reconciliation was performed in the procedural note and in your dictation.  You must also indicate the type and amount of contrast/anesthetic/steroid used as well as the fluoroscopy time.  Consent must be obtained and can be either paper or electronic.

Speech therapy videofluoroscopy exams on TU will be performed by the attending only.  On THURS, since there is no conference, the attending may ask you to be involved.

Additional Activities:

12:00-1:00 pm Noon Conference – Every Mon, Tues, Frid.  Usually in Med Conference Room – check with attending who is giving conference.  Noon conference schedule hangs in File Room – on Radiologists’ Weekly Work Schedule, will be available on-line when UW Rad Website working.

PM:  1:00 – 5:00

After 1:00 p.m. – Touch base again with plain film Attending in afternoon.  You may be assigned to cover general radiology reading all plain films in the afternoon with your attending.  Senior residents are expected to be able to handle larger volumes of work than junior residents.  If on with Drs. Kidd/Takasugi – you can also get chest CT requests from CT and review and dictate.

TEACHING SESSION MAY OCCUR IN A.M. OR P.M.  THE MORE HELP YOU PROVIDE DICTATING FILMS, THE MORE TIME THERE IS TO TEACH.

Conferences:

• Medicine & ICU Conferences:  9:30 and 10:30 every day except Thursday.
• GU Conference:  Tu 2-3 p.m. Med Conf Rm
• Ortho Conference: Wed 7:30-8:30 am Med Conf Rm
• Surgery/GI Conference:  Wednesday 12:15-1:15 – Medicine conference room
• Tumor Board:  Wednesday 1:00-2:00 – Pathology conference room
• Pathology Conference:  Friday 1:30-2:30 – Pathology conference room

Chest Resident is responsible for giving Medicine and ICU conference and Pathology Conference. 
Present cases collected during the rotation for Interesting Case Conference.
QA – communicate problem radiographs with Chief Tech or Alan Willoughby.